Two of the many reasons why I’m proud to live in New Zealand: we are the only country in the world to have completely decriminalised sex work, and we were the first country to grant women the right to vote. Today the New Zealand Herald published a special commemorative issue celebrating 125 years of women’s suffrage…and Madame Murphy is in it! (right between a dairy farmer and a Crown prosecutor. Madaming: just a regular, every-day job!)